Honoring 'courage' of fatherhood

8:39 PM,
Mar. 22, 2013

Derrick Morgan is vice president for domestic and economic policy at The Heritage Foundation.

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Derrick Morgan

The smallest and most fundamental form of government is the family and it is falling apart. Americans across the political spectrum are beginning to recognize it.

President Obama, in this year's State of the Union address, said he wanted to work to "strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and doing more to encourage fatherhood - because what makes you a man isn't the ability to conceive a child; it's having the courage to raise one."